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Lawyers for a Guantánamo Bay detainee from Kuwait have filed a habeas
corpus suit in the US courts, demanding his release at the end of 2014
when the last US troops are pulled out of Afghanistan and active hostilities
cease.

Eric Lewis, who represents 36-year-old school teacher Fawzi al-Odah, said that
as President Obama had repeatedly stated that core al-Qaeda in Afghanistan
was “on the path to defeat” following the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011,
there could be no further justification for holding detainees who profess
innocence and have never been charged.